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KUHN 657 FINAL STUDY GUIDE 2026
LATEST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS|
ACE YOUR GRADES.
The current program requires the learner to provide the animal
sound when asked what sound the animal makes. To prompt the
response, the BCBA has the RBT show the learner a picture of
the animal when asking what sound it makes. The goal is to fade
the prompt quickly and have the learner independently respond.
Which prompt fading procedure would be best given this
information?
A. Errorless
B. Least to most
C. Prompt delay
D. Stimulus fading - correct answer -prompt delay
Cooper wakes up from his nap and cries. His mother comes in
and comforts him. Assuming this pattern is established in which
whenever cooper cries when he wakes up, his mother comes into
the room. What is the cry functioning as?
A. Mand
B. Tact
C. Intraverbal
D. Listener responding - correct answer -mand
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Greg, a 16-year-old boy with ASD, covers his ears and screams
every time he's in the room with a crying baby. His BCBA designs
a program in which his team prompts him to say "too loud" as
soon as a baby begins to cry, and they do not allow him to cover
his ears. When he says this, the BCBA will remove the baby from
the room. This program is an example of
A. FCT
B. Noncontingent reinforcement
C. Antecedent intervention
D. High p request sequence - correct answer -FCT
Joe's daughter wants to learn her dads phone number. As an
RBT, he teachers her by presenting a visual of the entire number.
He then reads the phone number out loud and has her read it with
him. After she can read it fluently, he covers the last digit and
expects her to read the phone number and tell him the last digit
with independence. Joe will cover the 2nd to the last digit and so
on until she is saying the phone number independently. When
intervention strategy is he using to teach these skills?
A. Backward chaining
B. Total task chaining
C. Forward chaining
D. Shaping - correct answer -backwards chaining
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Response maintenance is demonstrated in which of the following
examples?
A. Andrew is taught to color by using a back and forth motion,
now months later he colors using a circular motion, back and
forth, or sometimes will paint
B. Vanessa is taught to say hi when a friend approaches her, now
she says hello, how are you or hola amiga
C. On melanies first day of work, her instructor taught her how to
salsa dance. Now as a retired singer she is able to salsa dance
without any further instruction
D. Antwan learns that a quarter is worth 25 cents, later someone
asks what is worth 25 cents, and antawn answers a quarter -
correct answer -on melanies first day of work, her instructor
taught her how to salsa dance. Now as a retired singer she is able
to salsa dance without any further instruction
Timmy is a 5 year olf who receives aba in a school setting. During
one of her recent observations, his bcba noted that timmy is
making a consistent pattern of errors during DTT. Which of the
following should she do?
A. Thicken reinforcement schedule and provide timmy with higher
quality reinforcement when he answers correctly
B. Modify timmys program to avoid errors allowing timmy to
access greater reinforcement and increase desired behaviors
KUHN 657 FINAL STUDY GUIDE 2026
LATEST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS|
ACE YOUR GRADES.
The current program requires the learner to provide the animal
sound when asked what sound the animal makes. To prompt the
response, the BCBA has the RBT show the learner a picture of
the animal when asking what sound it makes. The goal is to fade
the prompt quickly and have the learner independently respond.
Which prompt fading procedure would be best given this
information?
A. Errorless
B. Least to most
C. Prompt delay
D. Stimulus fading - correct answer -prompt delay
Cooper wakes up from his nap and cries. His mother comes in
and comforts him. Assuming this pattern is established in which
whenever cooper cries when he wakes up, his mother comes into
the room. What is the cry functioning as?
A. Mand
B. Tact
C. Intraverbal
D. Listener responding - correct answer -mand
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Greg, a 16-year-old boy with ASD, covers his ears and screams
every time he's in the room with a crying baby. His BCBA designs
a program in which his team prompts him to say "too loud" as
soon as a baby begins to cry, and they do not allow him to cover
his ears. When he says this, the BCBA will remove the baby from
the room. This program is an example of
A. FCT
B. Noncontingent reinforcement
C. Antecedent intervention
D. High p request sequence - correct answer -FCT
Joe's daughter wants to learn her dads phone number. As an
RBT, he teachers her by presenting a visual of the entire number.
He then reads the phone number out loud and has her read it with
him. After she can read it fluently, he covers the last digit and
expects her to read the phone number and tell him the last digit
with independence. Joe will cover the 2nd to the last digit and so
on until she is saying the phone number independently. When
intervention strategy is he using to teach these skills?
A. Backward chaining
B. Total task chaining
C. Forward chaining
D. Shaping - correct answer -backwards chaining
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Response maintenance is demonstrated in which of the following
examples?
A. Andrew is taught to color by using a back and forth motion,
now months later he colors using a circular motion, back and
forth, or sometimes will paint
B. Vanessa is taught to say hi when a friend approaches her, now
she says hello, how are you or hola amiga
C. On melanies first day of work, her instructor taught her how to
salsa dance. Now as a retired singer she is able to salsa dance
without any further instruction
D. Antwan learns that a quarter is worth 25 cents, later someone
asks what is worth 25 cents, and antawn answers a quarter -
correct answer -on melanies first day of work, her instructor
taught her how to salsa dance. Now as a retired singer she is able
to salsa dance without any further instruction
Timmy is a 5 year olf who receives aba in a school setting. During
one of her recent observations, his bcba noted that timmy is
making a consistent pattern of errors during DTT. Which of the
following should she do?
A. Thicken reinforcement schedule and provide timmy with higher
quality reinforcement when he answers correctly
B. Modify timmys program to avoid errors allowing timmy to
access greater reinforcement and increase desired behaviors
